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For the third year in a row, New York-based distributor A24 led at the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations counting a total 12 noms versus last year’s 17. A24’s nom count this year doubled up on  Amazon Studios, Netflix and The Orchard which all tied for six. Annapurna Pictures followed with five noms…

The British Independent Film Awards has set a handful of early winners with Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite scoring five prizes. Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here picked up two, while Bart Layton's American Animals and Nick Park's animated Early Man took one each. Save Early Man, each of the winning movies is…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Special Grand Jury Prize winner The Favourite leads nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards with 13 in its court. The twisted take on the British monarchy and period cinema, which Fox Searchlight releases November 23 in North America, has nods for Venice Best Actress…

Kino Lorber documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami debuted to robust numbers over the weekend, grossing $60,442 in three locations, giving it an impressive $20,147 per theater average. That’s the highest of the weekend and one of the best among all 2018 non-fiction openings. The same distributor also bowed Hitler…

UPDATED at 11:45AM PT with more numbers and analysis. Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, the first feature from the director since 2011, rocketed to a strong launch in its debut, grossing $129,911 in three theaters. Searchlight's Isle of Dogs added hundreds of runs for its third frame, taking in $4.6M to…

Joaquin Phoenix, who won Best Actor last year at Cannes for his performance in filmmaker’s Lynne Ramsay’s drama You Were Never Really Here, has been surprising audiences before or after every showing of the film at the Arclight Hollywood this weekend and he plans to continue to greet moviegoers tomorrow, too. Deadline…

Just in time for the Cannes announcements, Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, which debuted at last year's event, is headed to U.S. theaters. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, the Amazon Studios feature had a solid opening in the U.K. last month. The title headlines a fairly wide pack of newcomers this weekend…

Among this year’s batch of Oscar nominees, a few of the most-discussed surprises came in the form of several nods for Paul Thomas Anderson’s darkly comedic, high-fashion drama Phantom Thread. Among the six nods the film received—including for Best Director and Best Picture—one of those that surprised the least was a…

The Sundance Film Festival has made its final additions for its 2018 edition running from Jan. 18-28 in Park City, Utah. They include a Todd Haynes retrospective and a conversation with the filmmaker; the documentary premiere Akicita:​ ​The​ ​Battle​ ​of​ ​Standing​ ​Rock, which looks back at the 2016 Native American…

The new trailer for Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here has dropped and it features Joaquin Phoenix serving up some traumatic realness as a PTSD-ridden vet who slowly unravels as he attempts to bust a senator's daughter out of a sex-trafficking ring. Ramsay’s film received a positive ovation at the Cannes Film…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning over critics at last spring’s Cannes Film Festival with an 80% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here from Amazon Studios is staking out Feb. 23 for a limited release. The movie stars a sublime Joaquin Phoenix as Joe, a PTSD Gulf War vet/former FBI…

Resilience is the key to survival in this business, especially for directors, and after weathering a public feud over the Natalie Portman western Jane Got a Gun, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is basking in the Cannes sunshine after receiving a seven-minute standing ovation last night for the premiere of her…